Root Clone Test - pictures

im in this with you Hobbes, i too made a journal the same DAY you started this one, and mine as well has pics. I didn't try to thread jack or anything but when i read the thing about root cloning i went strait for it because i want alot of little clones to work with and especially if it works for me ill have alot of little clones of OG Kush haha so im stoked about that. but with you im following you and we started this on the same day so im excited to see who gets them going hopefully both of us =]

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Good stuff Hotsxyman! Could you post a link to your thread and/or some pics please?

Let's consider ourselves all working to achieve the goal or proving Root Cloning, the more people the better chance we have.

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Subbed; not something I'd most likely ever use, but very curious.

Kudos to you for trying this, Hobbes.

Thanks for your efforts to document this alternative approach to regenerating harvested plants. Often it is not until we've harvested a plant that we know that it's a keeper. This would give us one more opportunity to keep a line alive.
Off topic, but since you mentioned the Jillybean and Pandora's Box here, does this mean we can expect a full smoke report (with your usual rigor) on those units some time soon? Been wondering how they stack up to two of your benchmarks, Bubblegum and Kali Mist.

Thanks for all of your great posts.

Hobbes can I mail you weed to test? you always give the best smoke reports . . .

Im in...

Plastic Jar
Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil
a couple fingers scoops of roots from a vegging headband clone
placed an inch of soil
roots
an inch of soil above
wet the soil a little
mist the top
place lid
throw into closet

Lets see what happens!

here is my link to my testing

https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/295732-vh-root-budding.html

good luck all on this experiment =]

I uprooted a plant 3 days ago ran across this so I tossed a hand full of roots in a bowl watered and covered.

Thinking....

I wonder if this could be a way to clone auto's...

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Make sure the roots are in complete dark - if your container is translucent put it in a second container or closet like Sexxxy Beast.

Make a moisture/air seal right on top of the mix, keep all the moisture in. Put Saran wrap or a plastic bag - gently - touching the top of the mix, in addition to the cover.

Think of the roots you that will form calydons like the cuttings you'd pick to sprout roots - pulpy and not woody. Separate the roots but put them all in the mix - each piece of root is like a cutting.

Good stuff guys!

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"I wonder if this could be a way to clone auto's..."

That is a good question. On one hand any clone coming from any part of the mother should be as old as the mother, on the other hand we're basically cloning a plant into a sprout.

Anyone with an auto flower going, we'd love to have you join the test.

Another great angle to the experiment! Kudos Nick!

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I will be trying this once I harvest.. couple more weeks..

I'll keep you posted on when I start

that is a really good idea though. and you can really clone the plant this way at any stage of the plants life if you really think about it.

hotsxyman911 said:

that is a really good idea though. and you can really clone the plant this way at any stage of the plants life if you really think about it.

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yeah i was thinking this also, its looks like everyone wants to wait 'till the end of there harvest- this tecnik will be gr8 for seed growers , even good genitics produce differant results- this way if a plant produces amazing results you can still clone it (i wish i knew about this awhile ago
i swear i grow a bagseed kush one time but had no way of knowing untell it was all choped up , but i now know what i'll do next time i get a bagseed fire ball- root clone it!

Im along for the ride, learning some really good stuff here. Kudos, Hobbes

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I harvested a Jillybean tonight and collected some roots, sifted out the old pro mix.



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I took half of them and set up a bubbler. It should work and be quicker than pro mix, as with cloning. I'm concerned about too much bubbling damaging developing calydons. Maybe a hanging basket with the bubbles off to the side so the water is oxygenated and the roots don't get disturbed. As is I think the roots will collect along the side of the bucket, they won't move around but it might not be good to have the roots touching the bucket.



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I put the other half of the roots in fresh Pro Mix with ph 6.8 water, black bucket, plastic bag, lid, under grow table. I've got 3 buckets of roots from plants that were in flower, 1 bucket from a plant harvested 3 weeks prior, 1 bucket of roots from a freshly harvested plant in a bubbler and 1 bucket from the same plant in fresh Pro Mix.

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I have to sub to this one for sure. Interesting concept indeed.

So this is just a way to save genetics pretty much?
Once you get too far into flowering and want to save the strain you can do this?
This will take much longer than regular cloning so that is why I figured that was the case